The parents took the pill to the Taylor Police Department, where officers performed a field test and determined that it was MDMA, or ecstasy.

Three employees at a fast-food restaurant in Central Texas were arrested this week after a family found drugs hidden in a kid's meal.

According to police, the family went to the Sonic in Taylor, about 30 miles northeast of Austin, on Thursday night. After they got their food, the 11-year-old daughter discovered a pill as she unwrapped a hamburger for her 4-year-old brother.

"Being an 11-year-old, she asked her parents if this was candy," Taylor police Chief Henry Fluck told KEYE-TV.

The parents took the pill to the police department, where officers performed a field test and determined that it was MDMA, or ecstasy.

"When they came to the police department, they were very upset, and we understand why," Fluck told KXAN-TV.

Police went to the Sonic and arrested the manager, 30-year-old Tanisha Monavette Dancer, and two other employees, 22-year-old Jose Javier Molina and 35-year-old Jonathan Ray "Scoop" Roberson. Authorities at the Williamson County jail reported finding three similar pills when they searched Dancer.

Dancer was arrested on a drug-possession charge as well as a parole-violation warrant. She also faces charges of delivery of a controlled substance and endangering a child and remained in custody Friday, with bail set at $10,000.

Molina was arrested on a charge of marijuana possession and released on $1,500 bond.

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Roberson was arrested on four outstanding warrants and remained in jail Friday, with bail set at $29,000.

Sonic said in a statement that Dancer had been fired from the restaurant, which is a franchise.

"The franchisee takes guest safety and food safety very seriously," the statement said. "Local police are investigating this incident, and the franchisee is cooperating with police in their investigation."

Tom Steele, Breaking News Producer. Tom has covered breaking news for The Dallas Morning News since 2016. He has worked in a number of other capacities for The News since 2007, and he was previously a copy editor at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fla. He has degrees in journalism and economics from Lehigh University.